Sunday, 27 October 2013
KURBd - The Cause.... The Defect EP
EP review
by jay@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
There are some sounds that just worm into your DNA. It can come from your Nan sending you off to sleep with a nursery rhyme or a sound that sound-tracked your musical puberty.
When the guitar
stutters, then sets it's phaser to crunching, pulverizing stun with pear drop
sweet harmonies in the first few seconds of 'Beware The Silence', the lead-track
of the debut EP 'The Cause... The Defect' from KURBd, I am that fledgling
long hair, being beautifully brutalised by Alice In Chains at Rock City.
That's
not to say that this track is some grunge rehash, rather it takes the
touchstones of Alice, Sugar and yes the "N" shaped shadow that all bands since
have had to bear, and crushes your head with an incendiary, iridescent blast of
groove, grunge and bloody great rock that is utterly here and now. The harmonies
and power are as measured and precise as a guided missile to your
cortex.
'Wreck' has a darker, menacing hue to it. It pulls you in slowly, then overpowers you with a monolith-sized chorus, then slowly lets you reach out before fully immersing you in its wonderfully warm, delicious, irresistible, carny-esquewhirlpool
of pleasure. 'Wreck' is a song that Scott Weiland would go sober for. Then to
the piledriver of cacophonous, splenetic, beautifully tempered fury that is the
EP's final delight, 'Kerosene'.
'Wreck' has a darker, menacing hue to it. It pulls you in slowly, then overpowers you with a monolith-sized chorus, then slowly lets you reach out before fully immersing you in its wonderfully warm, delicious, irresistible, carny-esque
This is a blast of malevolent marvel that will
whip your head back and forth while taking over your limbs to flail around, and
wake days later with the bruises of size 9s on your spine as the whole crowd is
transformed into a singular stage-diving, crowd-surfing beast. C'mon then KURBd,
we want more. Please. (If I didn't say please my Nan would sing to me
again!).
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